The Chinese Ratepayers' Associa tion has issued an important statement of opinion on the assessment of houses and buildings for revenue Purposes by the Shanghai Municipa Council. On one point at least the Association appears to be imperfec'- ly informed. It seems to imagine that the Council is hound to fellow a certain method of assessment. This fousiness life of Shanghai but success sive partners and employees in the Jeompany have fully borne their part fin the social and sporting life of the community. There will be an opportlunity later perhaps to review some fof their achievements in detail, Just now it is sufficient to note with deep regret the passing of a landmark and the economic and social changes therein connoted, is incorrect. No rating authority is Councillor, and President of the Bxecutive Yuan, is also. Minister for Foreign Affeirs. atthe moment. Apart from his membership of the Central "Political Council and the Slate Council, General Chiang Kal~ shole is Chairman of the National Miltary Council and Chief of the General Stall. Im. practice he Wwlelds the power of a Commander-IncChief, hence the ttle Generalissimo. For all practical purposes therefore Me. Wang Ching-wel and General Chiang Kai-shek are the rulers of China, with Mr. Lin Sen, the President" of the Republi, charged with the duty of represent-Ing' the Government in. ceremonial affairs. Whether the tragic events of yesterday will cause a further postponement of the Congress and the Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee remains to be seen. Martial law has been ée~ clared at Nanking and presumably the Government wil consider th situation now created in relation to, the agenda before the "delegates. Among the important subjects set down for discussion is the Draft, Constitution. The adjustment the differences between Nanking and Canton will, asin. previous years, be taken into account, with= out perhaps much prospect of radical alteration. However, in the light of yesterday's happenings, the Plenary Session and the Congress step, for the moment at all events, Into the background until the necessary normality has been restored in Nenking. time. A. pipe-band. plays. through out; the chukker last for 20 minutes. When a goal is hit. the scorer picks up the ball in his stick-hand and gallops for the other goal. Wher in the centre he throws the ball up and has a prodigious welt at it while in the alr, and generally hits it Spectators frequently get hit 'OF trodden on, but that seems to be more amusing than anything else.... The losing side is supposed to dance for the benet of the winners...
Thus verites It-Colonel J. C. Gannon, himself a sound player, from his notes on the Rawlinson tour.
From Chitral polo spread southward, to India. It became the favourite /game of the Indian Princes and the British Army learnt and developed it there. Tt was first played in England by the 10th Hussars in 1869. Appropriately enough that is the regiment in which the Duke of Gloucester to-day is a Major for His Royal Highness is the only Prince the Royal House to figure in the list of "Blues"—a distinction wen by him in 1920 when he was in the Cambridge polo team which beat Oxford by 4 goals to 3. The glory has passed from English and Indian polo to America whose teams hi developed a certainty of aim and speed unattained as yet by the earlier exponents of the game. Indian polo is distinguished by speed and defines of the touch. Boards are not used on Indian grounds and the ball is lighter. Readers of Kipling's "The Maltese Cat" will realize the importance attached in India to the polo-sense of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.